Sometimes I think about my uni days and get hit with the realization that having lunch next to a skeleton talking about muscle markers and sword use, is not a universal experience and may be seen as quite odd or even disgusting 😅
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Meme template of the woman with the disgusted then appreciative face. On the first the text says "My Boss: I have a task for you today". The second says "can you research these 13th century artefacts for me?"
Interrupted routines at work can be very hard to deal with
Today, though, I am very fine with it 😎
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Photo of a tiny grey shard of medieval pottery. There are a few outlines of a fingerprint on a slightly chared surface.
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Just a tiny pottery shard from the 13th century with the faintest outline of a finger print
It always feels special to hold something that's been around for so long and find traces of the people who made and used the objects 💚
One of the students that work at our excavations has a name that just sounds like it's straight out of a historical romance or belongs to the sweet and powerful romanceable NPC in a fantasy TTRPG
And I can't help but smile every time I read it 💚😌
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Macro photo of the head of a tooth brush where the bristles have a distinct angle of use with almost gone on the top to longer towards the other end of the head.
The tool of choice 👌
Or
What happens if you use a tooth brush for cleaning archaeological findings, such as ceramics
This one is close to retirement
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Weird archaeology things: when cleaning jaw bones with teeth you often have to be careful so you don't loosen all the teeth
My favourite type of "gotta brush the teeth," though. It's incredibly fascinating 👌
(Disclaimer: I only handle animals, humans are not my division.)
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Also as always so grateful for abstracts and summaries
I wish I could read all the languages, but I just don't have the time to study those on top of everything else
Just stumbled over some czech tablet woven bands and am in love 💚
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It's a good day at work whenever I get to research archaeological and historical textiles 🙏
There's so much more research being done and available today then when I started uni and I get excited over everything I overlooked or didn't know
There's just so much knowledge 🙏😭
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First day back at work after a less than restful vacation
I've been dreading today because of exhaustion
Oh to have vacation days according to my disability needs 😖🙏
Well, there we go, back to randomly sharing archaeological items or thoughts
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Welcome to a new round of ADHD brain interrupts my work in archaeology with wild ideas
Today's suggestion: redraw Saints as Modern Super Heroes/RPG Heroes OR redraw modern Super Heroes/RPG Heroes as Saints
(If you do this, please show me! I want to see! 🙏)
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Close up photo of the neckline of a black shirt with off centre neckslit closed with over a dozend silver coloured late medieval buttons and a Witcher Wolf School amulett.
Love to have some of my cosplay garments in my regular clothing rotation
Today, it's the shirt I made for Netflix Geralt that took ages to embroider (even though it's barely visible) and my wolf school medaillon
An Elf needs some dopamine on this very Monday day
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Photo of a small fragmented ceramic figurine of John being gently held by Jesus (whose head is broken off) in a publication about pottery and potters in and around Konstanz, Germany from the Early Middle Ages to Early Modernity.
Not scientific or historical fact just a thought, BUT apparently, depictions of Jesus and John in "loving devotion" were very popular amongst nuns in the late 14th century and my first thought was "of course gentle love between two men has been THE ideal for literate women even then" 🤷🏾♂️
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Sometimes, I get tempted to think that German isn't that wack of a language, and then I write a word like "Unterglasurbemalungslinien" that I just combined from the descriptors I needed
It makes perfect sense
And is needlessly long
(It means "drawn on lines under the pottery glazing")
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Photo of the backside of a wooden shield in the style of late Iron Age central European celts. Cose up of the handle.
Photo of the backside of a wooden shield in the style of late Iron Age central European celts. Close up of the iron edge wrapped around the shield edge.
Late iron age Spear tip. They are leaf shaped and rather short.
Wooden statue as a replica of an existing older celtic one and a brass carnyx war trumpet stored in the background.
Different shield with a metal encased edge. But that metal is partly gone (and my colleagues never fixed it xD)
Plus, a typical spear tip for that time. The carnyx was sadly too high, up, you can see it in the picture with the wooden statue.
(Enough nerding, have a lovely day 🤗)
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Photo of the backside of a wooden shield in the style of late Iron Age central European celts.
Photo of the backside of a wooden shield in the style of late Iron Age central European celts. Closeup of the handle.
Photo of the backside of a wooden shield in the style of late Iron Age central European celts. Close up of the raw hide wrapped around the entire front of the shield towards the back.
The items I have access to are all late Iron Age/Pre-Roman so maybe not as useful
Just grabbed a few pictures. Not sure if they are useful. It's often a blend between historical and modern techniques (as I just realized 😅)
And they've seen some battle damage
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Will never not be extremely confused by Swiss publications because of the lack of ß
I work mostly with pottery artifacts
So the difference between "Maße" as in measurements and "Masse" as in weight or components of the clay are very important xD
Generally though, Swiss archaeology is 👌
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I was wondering why I suddenly got so hungry and had that sudden urge to attend a medieval fair before I realised the neighbour was baking bread
That smell was seriously divine
And now I want to dress up and eat some silly little historically inspired food 😅👌
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Just realized that if I have the option, my prefered way of learning is by sharing it with someone else or teaching it (technically intentional, consensual infodumping)
If any mutual ever feels like listening to an excited rant/lecture about a very boring archaeoogical thing, hit me up
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The pattern of epidemics like the 14th century plague being followed directly by hate crimes, stereotypes and pogroms is much more horrifying if you see it repeated throughout history
And every time a minority was used as a scapegoat
But there were also always voices against this hate!
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More research, more unexpected findings
I'm looking for archaeolofy in a particular city and stumbled over this article
"Der Verlust des männlichen sexuellen Verlangens im alten Mesopotamien. Ursachen, Symptome und Therapien in keilschriftlichen Quellen"
Nothing is new.
While browsing online libraries for research I noticed that quite often male colleauges have profile pictures that are decades out of date
If that is because they forgot to upload recent images or they hold on to their 40 year old selves while they've reached retirement age, I can't say
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Forgot to tag
Technically it's #ElfAtWork and #art
Frenz came to visit. We hang out at water cooler and help make the copiez.
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I hate touching human bones
A lot
(Disclaimer to sooth some worries: I'm an archaeologist)
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We had fun helping the peeples make copiez.
Made some selfeez.
Good job me.
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The unique challenge of working in archaeology and sometimes snacking while at work: remembering to eat the whole snack as fast as possible BEFORE you start cataloguing coffin nails
Because the earth and residue on them is not something I want to ingest 😅
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Today, we're thankfully in homeoffice
Which means reading scientific research papers in comfy clothes and occasional cat cuddles ✨️
Atm working my way through a collection of essays about witchcraft from the Stone Age until today and am already slightly mad about ableist language 😑
At work, I don't know most of my colleagues who do the field work at excavations
So naturally, when reading the name "Rafael" my mind conjures up an image of Rafael from BG3 in the usual flannels and work pants most archaeologists wear
You're welcome... I guess 😅
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